In the updated edition of this “tour de force” ( National Review ), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump’s “America First” politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial debate: Is international government the path to human flourishing? Or will humankind be freer and happier in a world of independent self-governing nations?    In The Virtue of Nationalism , Yoram Hazony contends that a world of sovereign nations is the only option for those who care about personal and collective freedom. He demonstrates that, beginning in the sixteenth century, English, French, Dutch, and American Christians embraced the Old Testament’s vision of national independence, a vision that eventually brought freedom to peoples from Poland and India to Israel and Ethiopia. International events since the book’s original publication have made it timelier than ever. This updated paperback edition features a new preface and afterword by the author. ISI Conservative Book of the Year “Likely to stand out for its ambition and theoretical simplicity, providing today’s right-wing nationalists with a conceptual language for challenging their globalist rivals.”― Park MacDougald, New York Magazine “Wonderful… Useful and persuasive.”― Michael Anton, Foreign Policy “A spirited defense of nationalism and the nation-state. Although he does not ignore nationalism’s flaws, Hazony rightly contends that Western intellectuals have been too quick to dismiss it and that the topic deserves a more balanced and nuanced analysis than what the academy has offered in recent years.”― Yael Tamir, Foreign Affairs “An indispensable read.”― Russ Vought, Newsweek “The closest thing to a manifesto for intellectuals on the right.”                               ― Daniel Luban, New Republic “As political philosopher Yoram Hazony explains in his vital book, The Virtue of Nationalism, globalism, the foundational rationale of the European Union is in essence an imperialist project… Hazony’s book provides the missing philosophical argument for Trump’s nationalism, and places it in the long tradition of American nationalism.”― Caroline Glick, Breitbart “A key text of the nationalist right.”  ― Ian Ward, Politico “A magnificent affirmation of democratic nationalism and sovereignty. The book is a tour de force that has the potential to significantly shape the debate between the supporters of supranational globalism and those of national-state democracy.”― John Fonte, National Review “I have rarely read anything so explosive. But it is absolutely fascinating.”― Giles Fraser, UnHerd “Hazony’s book is by far the most interesting and compelling articulation of the nationalist case put forward thus far.”― Matt McManus, Quillette "One of the most important books on one of the most important controversies of our time."― New Criterion "Hazony is both erudite and well reasoned."― American Conservative “No matter what you think of nationalism, you cannot dismiss this book.”― Charles Copeland, Conservative Book of the Year Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, C-Span Book TV “His book should cause liberals to rethink their repugnance toward nationalism, and it should prompt nationalists to reflect more deeply on the roots of their convictions.”― Daniel McCarthy, National Interest “An elegant, reasoned defense of the nation-state. Far from constraining individual liberty, nations provide a context in which it can flourish and gain purpose… Even critics of nationalism should welcome the challenge it offers and strive to meet it with the same fair-minded spirit rather than dismissing the phenomenon as the malevolent specter of our day.”― William Anthony Hay, Law and Liberty “In the late twentieth century, it became received wisdom that nations and nationalism produce intolerance, ethnic cleansing, war, and genocide… In  The Virtue of Nationalism , Hazony offers a bold counternarrative. His most striking claim is that any world government will necessarily be intolerant because ours is a world of diverse cultures.”― Diana Muir Applebaum, American Affairs “An incredibly provocative read.”― Russ Roberts, EconTalk "[Hazony] cogently argues in the book that anyone who values his freedom should reject universalism and fight for a future of nations... [an] excellent book."― City Journal “His case is persuasive, and this book will be invaluable.”― Henry George, Marion West “Yoram Hazony is the first such thinker to provide a sustained theoretical argument for the revived spirit of nationalism. The Virtue of Nationalism is a brilliant achievement, at once learned and sharp, philosophical and politically engaged .”  ― Christopher DeMuth, Jewish Review of Books “A concise, thoughtful, strongly put case that resurgent nationalism is reason not for concern, but f